"The only liberating path open to us is to bring the economic — and political — system back to objectivity. It would then cease to put pressure on us, at every moment of our existence, by processes of psychological action calculated to suggest to us needs that bind us. Finally, freed from the continual solicitations of state propaganda or the commercial and advertising apparatus, the imagination could unfold in complete freedom in its own universe (art, love, leisure). It is by restoring social life to rationality, that is to say, to reality, that we will be able to once again open up the field of possibilities where such a field exists for good."
Capital for Profit is the title of the English version of Anticapitalism, written by Paul Fabra from 1969, published in 1974, republished in 1979, revised again in 1989 and 1990 for the English edition published in the United States in 1991. The author, at the end of his Preface to the English Edition, indicates that he now considers this version to be the most accomplished —
"I now consider the English version (which incorporates some changes) to be the more authoritative".
The chapters, grouped into two parts, are composed of passages generally titled, in other words sections. For example, in Capital for Profit there are four sections in the first chapter, seven in the second, and so on. In Anticapitalism, including the Preface and the appendices, there are a total of 140 sections. For the English edition and excluding the two presentations of its own — Foreword by Michael Nowak (3 pages), Preface to the English Edition (8 pages) — the same count gives 109 sections. In number of characters, the shortening is about a quarter.
Although largely based on writings in English, Paul Fabra's treatment of "the most general problems facing the economist" was designed in French. This is why extracting from Anticapitalism only what is in Capital for Profit is likely to help French and French-speaking people to become aware, for the first time or more completely, of the reversal advocated by their author9.
In A4 format, this book in English is 33 pages long10.